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The Queen implied that Princess Charlotte likes to boss around her brother Prince George

The Queen was implying that Charlotte keeps an eye out for George rather than the other way around

Tom Clay

Every year, she presents a Bible to the pupil from primary schools on her Norfolk estate who does best in a religious studies project.

This year the prize was awarded to Emily of Dersingham, Norfolk, whose father Tom Clay, 38, also won it in 1990.

Emily, a Dersingham Primary School pupil, went to Sandringham House for the presentation after church on Sunday, along with her parents and six-year-old sister Hadleigh.

The 91-year-old monarch made a quip about two-year-old Charlotte and George, four, as she spoke to the family.

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The Queen presents a Bible to the pupil from a school on her Norfolk estate who does the best in R.E

Mrs Clay said: “She asked if Emily looked after Hadleigh and I said it was more the other way round. She said it was like that with Princess Charlotte and Prince George.”

Insurance worker Mr Clay added: “The Queen was implying that Charlotte keeps an eye out for George rather than the other way around.

“It is often the case that a younger child is more confident. It is second child syndrome.”

Mr Clay said he still remembered speaking to the Queen when she presented him with his Bible in 1990.

The Queen told the family she thought they were the first to have a parent and child who had both won the prize

Princess Charlotte, who turns three on May 2, is a confident, chatty little girl who speaks a smattering of Spanish and revealed her confident nature last week in an official photograph released to mark her first day at Willcocks Nursery School

The picture taken by the Duchess of Cambridge, who is pregnant with her third child, showed the two-year-old beaming in delight as she sat on the steps at Kensington Palace before setting off for the nursery.

Last March, the Duchess also disclosed how Charlotte liked to be in command of her brother.

Princess Charlotte in pictures

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Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, who was born on 2 May 2015.